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In a spoofing attack, a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate user to access or manipulate data without authorization. The vulnerability of cryptographic security mechanisms to compromised user credentials motivates spoofing attack…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Tien Ngoc Ha , Daniel Romero

In distributed detection systems with wireless sensor networks, the communication between sensors and a fusion center is not perfect due to interference and limited transmitter power at the sensors to combat noise at the fusion center's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor , Mung Chiang

User authentication in future wireless communication networks is expected to become more complicated due to their large scale and heterogeneity. Furthermore, the computational complexity of classical cryptographic approaches based on public…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Atsu Kokuvi Angélo Passah , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Arsenia Chorti

We address a cognitive radio scenario, where a number of secondary users performs identification of which primary user, if any, is transmitting, in a distributed way and using limited location information. We propose two fully distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pavle Belanovic , Sergio Valcarcel Macua , Santiago Zazo

Achieving ultra-reliable, low-latency and secure communications is essential for realizing the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Non-coherent massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has recently been proposed as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Zhifang Gu , He Chen , Pingping Xu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Many security techniques working at the physical layer need a correct channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, especially when devices are equipped with multiple antennas. Therefore such techniques are vulnerable to pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Stefano Tomasin , Ingmar Land , Frédéric Gabry

Recently, channel state information (CSI) at the physical-layer has been utilized to detect spoofing attacks in wireless communications. However, due to hardware impairments and communication noise, the CSI cannot be estimated accurately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Chu Li , Aydin Sezgin

With the rapid advancement of 6G, identity authentication has become increasingly critical for ensuring wireless security. The lightweight and keyless Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) is regarded as an instrumental security measure in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Xiqi Cheng , Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Haixiao Gao , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Backscatter communication (BC) emerges as a pivotal technology for ultra-low-power energy harvesting applications, but its practical deployment is often hampered by notable security vulnerabilities. Physical layer authentication (PLA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yishan Yang , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

In this paper we assess the security performance of key-less physical layer authentication schemes in the case of time-varying fading channels, considering both partial and no channel state information (CSI) on the receiver's side. We first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Ennio Gambi

Achieving ultra-reliable, low-latency and secure communications is essential for realizing the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Non-coherent massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is one of promising techniques to fulfill…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Zhifang Gu , He Chen , Pingping Xu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

With millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication envisioned to be the key enabler of next generation high data rate wireless networks, security is of paramount importance. While conventional security measures in wireless networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Sarankumar Balakrishnan , Shreya Gupta , Arupjyoti Bhuyan , Pu Wang , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas , Zhi Sun

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malicious attacks so that specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

A robust full-space physical layer security (PLS) transmission scheme is proposed in this paper considering the full-space wiretapping challenge of wireless networks supported by simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Ang Li , Wenjie Wang , Kun Yang

A resilient distributed algorithm is proposed to solve the distributed resource allocation problem of a first-order nonlinear multi-agent system who is subject to false data injection (FDI) attacks. An intelligent attacker injects false…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xin Cai , Xinyuan Nan , Binpeng Gao

In this paper, we study the physical layer security (PLS) problem in the dual hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication system. First, we consider a single user single relay system and study a joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Waqas Aman , Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu , Haji M. Furqan , Zain Ali

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) hold significant promise for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). However, conventional RISs are typically modeled using diagonal scattering matrices, capturing only independent reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Cunhua Pan , Yilong Zeng , Qiang Li

Authentication is a key element of security, by which a receiver confirms the sender identity of a message. Typical approaches include either key-based authentication at the application layer or physical layer authentication (PLA), where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Stefano Tomasin

Split learning and differential privacy are technologies with growing potential to help with privacy-compliant advanced analytics on distributed datasets. Attacks against split learning are an important evaluation tool and have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Grzegorz Gawron , Philip Stubbings